I think I have a thing...

for macro photography- me thinks I'm going to have to invest in a macro lens next (when I'm working and earning bucket loads of money that is!)

The first shoot - I'm just going to totally be lazy and copy and paste what I put up on flickr..

When I was walking home today I caught sight of a bee on a flower I was 'praying' that he would stay there long enough for me to get my camera out of my handbag... what a relief he did. I got off a few shoots - went to try and take one from 'above' - just as I took the photo the wind blew and a piece of long grass got in the way and caused the focus to go all 'screwy'. I was holding my breath as I didn't want to disturb the bee and slowly lent in to try and move the grass out of the way (okay so I went to pull on it to get rid of it) - the movement bumped the flower and suddenly the bee - feel off the flower.... I was struck with the "ohh no it was dead and just siting there, no wonder it didn't move!" ... So i put the camera away and walked off back home.

Processing the photo in lightroom I zoomed in to get a look at the detail of him and was looking at how his poor little legs where just hanging there and thinking to myself 'Wow I can't believe he was just hanging on that steam like that, kind of freaky."

It actually took longer then I really want to admit to, to notice that something just wasn't 'right' about the flower..... it wasn't until I looked at the bee's head and saw something stuck behind his 'ear' that I looked closer..... and there it was, the explanation for everything - A white spider had actually been killing the bee at the time - poor Bee.

This photo is just of a pretty flowe I saw before I got the one of the bee!

Hope you are doing well and behaving yourself!! :)